Thank you for your words on grief… it really touched me as I’ve been going thru so much grief … loss of job …friends..my husband 68 with Alzheimer’s.. and now the pandemic… my feelings exactly…you explained it so well ❤️
Thank you for your podcast on grief in May. I am a Lutheran pastor grieving several griefs:
– a painful departure in Nov. 2019, from a congregation I loved and served faithfully for 15 years;
– a challenging diagnosis of breast cancer in February, just as Covid 19 was ramping up;
– losing a breast and large number of lymph nodes, and suffering from painful nerve reactions;
– a growing realization that now, I likely will never return to an active ministry….
– because the fast growing cancer has now metastasized…
I appreciated your take on griefs needing to be “gone through” – no way around it.
To allow oneself to grieve what is lost, the hopes unrealized, a future no longer possible,
this is the kindest way to treat oneself…and the sharing of tears, honesty with your students/congregants… this is the healthy way through… and why, perhaps, God gives us to one another.
Thank you for your words on grief… it really touched me as I’ve been going thru so much grief … loss of job …friends..my husband 68 with Alzheimer’s.. and now the pandemic… my feelings exactly…you explained it so well ❤️
Kristen,
Thank you for your podcast on grief in May. I am a Lutheran pastor grieving several griefs:
– a painful departure in Nov. 2019, from a congregation I loved and served faithfully for 15 years;
– a challenging diagnosis of breast cancer in February, just as Covid 19 was ramping up;
– losing a breast and large number of lymph nodes, and suffering from painful nerve reactions;
– a growing realization that now, I likely will never return to an active ministry….
– because the fast growing cancer has now metastasized…
I appreciated your take on griefs needing to be “gone through” – no way around it.
To allow oneself to grieve what is lost, the hopes unrealized, a future no longer possible,
this is the kindest way to treat oneself…and the sharing of tears, honesty with your students/congregants… this is the healthy way through… and why, perhaps, God gives us to one another.